You may think you know the story of Red Riding Hood, sugar and spice and all things nice. But there are two sides to every story, so let’s hear it from the Wolf himself! Here’s the story never heard of a kind and hungry wolf who strayed from the path and lost his friends.

Hot Brown Honey is taking the heat up a notch & bringing the temperature to fever pitch – delivering lashings of sass & a hot pinch of empowerment. Packing a potent punch with hip hop politics, the Honeys will make you laugh until you cry, clap until your hands bleed & shake every part of what your mama gave you!

The Return is the story of a town torn apart by faith, superstition and modernity. When a fisherman disappears, a small community is forced to confront the prospect that there is something more beyond the horizon.

The award-winning Monkeywood Theatre brings this tapestry of Manchester and Mancunians to HOME as part of PUSH 2018. Watch out for pop up performances of individual plays before every Theatre 2 performance.

1970’s post-revolutionary Somalia meets post-war, present day Mancunian diasporic sensibilities in this scratch performance. Elmi Ali is a writer, performer and facilitator based in the North West. He presents this new piece of work in its early stages.

Ali & Josh have been thinking about robots. They wondered what would happen if they made a show about artificial intelligence, for fun. But then an A.I robot called Steve committed suicide, a programme invented a new language, Elon Musk called on governments to stop making autonomous weapons of mass destruction.

After toiling down the art mines, tapping the seams of spoken word, comedy, live music, contemporary performance and everything in between, Pen:Chant return back to HOME for a PUSH special, presenting a line-up drawn from the best talent that the North West has to offer.

In an increasingly hostile world, Hatch Home looks to connect to humanity using poetry and theatre. Poets from Young Identity will reflect on the comic, the tragic and everything in between – visual arts, psychology, the news, science, sex and alienation; this show is a microcosm of the human experience.